Comments for Off the record – Craig Box

Comment on Debugging w3wp.exe and IIS application pools by Fauziah

Fauziah — Sun, 18 May 2025 15:35:34 +0000

Very useful guide! The explanation around isolating issues in IIS application pools is still relevant today. Have you updated this approach for newer versions of IIS or Windows Server? Thank you!

Comment on Two hits by Craig

Craig — Sun, 07 Feb 2021 20:54:18 +0000

Updated the second link, pointing to a YouTube version of the recipe, as unfortunately the page didn't get caught by the Wayback Machine.

Comment on Shouting into the void by Greig

Greig — Tue, 11 Feb 2020 18:38:40 +0000

WLUG Wiki and nostalgia sent me here. 😉

Comment on Debugging w3wp.exe and IIS application pools by Faith

Faith — Fri, 05 Oct 2018 17:40:06 +0000

Excellent! Still relevant after 10+ years. Thank you.

Comment on Three months with the TouchPad by Yuning

Yuning — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 23:02:06 +0000

TouchPad is another example of big company no one responsible of anything even a better optimised version of sw, how can it be slower the first version iPad. Joke on webOS/HP. btw, the guy running Palm before they got bought by HP was Steve Jobs left hand man who created the IPod. so it is NOT one person could make a good product but a spirit which could.

Comment on Three months with the TouchPad by Ron Collinson

Ron Collinson — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 21:06:10 +0000

What about going the other way, buying an android tablet (more powerful spec) and putting webos, it doesnt really fix issues of cost and what ever HP position on webos is now, hopefully the community could pick it up, reimplement parts of it (similar to beos -> haiku, but that's a complete rewrite).

WebOS seems to be the tablet OS I want, but its kinda hard to justify, the dual boot idea may make it happen thou.

Comment on Three months with the TouchPad by Craig

Craig — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 20:46:32 +0000

In reply to Raif. Interesting opinion there Raif. There are obviously some very good uses for the TouchPad I haven't had cause to need to try out!

Comment on Three months with the TouchPad by Raif

Raif — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 17:58:50 +0000

I have had the touchpad for about 3 months now. I also have 2 Ipad 2's. Funnily enough I use the touchpad routinely for work with apps like splashtop and its ability to bring all my mail (and contacts) is fabulous. Its really easy to use and carry around to meetings, looking at materials etc in meetings. I don't want to bring my games / leisure reading Ipad2 to work even though its lighter. I have installed Android on the touchpad and occaisionally switch to Android but the mail client isn't as good, nor is it as intuitive to use in my opinion - although its a good android implementation - I kind of use it like my 'leisure partition' on the touchpad plus access to network files and a have decent explorer give it some additional legs and flexibility over Webos and Ipad. I use Android on the touchpad for netflix when I have to because there's no netflix lclient for touchpad. Had some serious early problems with wifi connectivity in android which kept me in webOS till alpha3 - now resolved - but I still prefer the mail client in Webos. The newer apps on Android are also catching up greatly with Ios in terms of breadth of covereage and quality. Eventually (after ICS) I will likley migrate it fully to Android and stay theere. I have 3 young kids and they really enjoy the mix of educational and games available. I like some of the educational stuff coming on Android bettter rthan Ios now but if I searched more I could probably find equivalents on both sides. The big bummer is having to pay for the same software on different platforms for non free software.

Comment on Three months with the TouchPad by Mudface

Mudface — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 20:37:56 +0000

Good article….I remember at the time being really annoyed at missing out on what seemed like a real bargain and even tried to convince some new zealaned person to sell me his (although, it probably still is a bargain at £89 ~ curry + few drinks + taxi) …but if an ipad 1 is still faster….well…..I will take it of your hands for a curry + few drinks + taxi

Comment on Three months with the TouchPad by xyf

xyf — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 19:54:53 +0000

As with most things in this space the software is connected to the human being so much more than it used to be. Keyboards and mice add an area of delay that is considered acceptable (perhaps also because of our previous decades worth of experience) but when you are cuddling this little pad of glowing goodness our ability to interact with it needs to be exact and instant.